**** SPAIN v IRELAND ****

ffs i need 1 spain coener... are they not allowed to go and attack now

Ireland have been beyond an embarrassment, the worst side at the tournament by the proverbial country mile.

Del Bosque mug cripples my Torres hattrick predo
Golden boot @36 is healthy now though

A recent International  match between Ireland and Spain, Ireland  were awarded a penalty and the captain summoned his best player and said, 'I want you to take this one Duff. Just think hard as you kick -think which way the wind is blowing, and think which direction the keeper's going to jump.'

'Holy Mother!' said Duff. 'Do you expect me to think and kick at the same time?'

I have massive green on 3-2 spain.  come on!!

trapatoni is an amazing manager, to get this shambles here in the first place is a testiment.

Italy must have been very comfortable about their draw , knowing they had Ireland to come - wish I'd thought about that before backing them to win

Let's see what this McClean kid can do. Seems to me that every Sunderland and Irish fan seems to think he's the second coming.

I'm with you Iamhewho, layed 4.5's too

looks safe enough donit

Did Jim Beglin just suggest Spain have ground this and other results out?

Whats the stats ?

Must be a record for being 1 sided

4-0!

GOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

well done AUQ backers

Pathetic, if this was a boxing match it would have been stopped ages ago.

lord of goals 1 more

Zero injury time 1.01

Spain: 7 Corners
Ireland: 2

Those who layed the 4.5 goals start biting your nails ;)

Now its:  8 & 2

haaa, ball goes in-between the 2 biggest planks on the pitch! lol hilarious

Squeeky bum time Iamhewho!

What ever happened to Ireland being hard to beat, disciplined, Irish Spirit..

Quite frankly, they've been an embarrassment. Completely devoid of the necessary quality to even compete in this Tournament. If this is what it's going to be like with 24 teams, it will be a disaster.

yep i think abit just came out

Towel on pitch soon. 'No mas'.

You just know theres one more goal to come

hang on - this thing ain't NEVER going to 24 teams!!??

Have to agree with you t.richards

2016 it is

Ireland have been lucky to get nil.

spain look lioke they want another one. calm down spain thatl do

only Andorra and the Faroes would fail to qualify - and the Faroes are up-and-coming ; no easy games in International football you know!

Just becasue there are enough teams to fill 24 team tournament, doesn't mean there is enough quality. Just don't see how another 8 teams, or which 8 teams will add to the quality of the European Championships..

I feel for Italy, now Ireland will play tight on their last game not to conceed a goal

Switzerland, Belgium maybe.. but then you would subtract Ireland from that, and still only left with 17

Turkey, 18..

serbia

shaunthesheep • June 14, 2012 8:32 PM BST
unquoted??? have a guess I had on it...........................................jack poo!

How about Scotland?!

Serbia V Turkey. Just no....

But all these teams, you'd think will just become cannon fodder for the big sides still. You won't be seeing any of those added 8 teams reach the Semi finals. Just tokenism from the way I see it.

great singing from the irish

In fact, nay, let's allow Yorkshire, the Basque Country, Kosovo, Catalunya all enter qualifying.

Catalunya No! Seen there side! 

Catalunya would win it.. spain wouldnt qualify

Tokenism is the perfect word for it. It's time to abandon all in qualifying in Europe. We need to follow the lead of other federations and tier the qualification system. Sorry, but what do San Marino learn by losing 8-0, 9-0, 5-0, 6-0, 8-1. They might improve if Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein had their own pre-qualifying.

Who honestly layed Spain. Must be mad

only losers mate, literally.

Jun 14, 2012 -- 9:33PM, dbrfcno1 wrote:

Who honestly layed Spain. Must be mad

Betfair_loser !!

not all 1.23 shots win

WD clifford and me

Pros would have been all over 1.25

People like me, well, we know we should, be we don't. Because we've picked a few too many of the bad ones in the past.

Well, I just made more from Fylkir against Fram than I did on this one-sided affair.

True but never in doubt

I agree, Darlo. But even saying that, their respective federations are soo, so far behind in terms of Football development that there is really no hope for them. Sad to say, but thier existance is totally pointless, in terms of them being 'competition' for bigger nations. Would rather see them enter in thier own qualifying for a lesser FIFA nations World Cup.

Croatia to beat Spain, and Italy win = Spain out. Heard it here first

wd all winners

not well done at all to loser

i shall remember that name and always know from this day that you are a walking disaster area when it come to betfair

What Ricky Gervais thinks:

http://jstsay.in/00064J

i think you should visit the drawing board

I'm no pro but I could tell the price for Spain was huge.

put everything I had on spain -2.5! good to feel lucky for once

There's no easy games in international football though apparently. On paper this was Barcelona against some poor Secunda Liga side and you would have been lucky to get 1.01 on that.

I have to agree

With 16 teams like it is now, you are weening out the North Korea's, Togo's, New Zealand's that you see at the WC; and whilst is nice to see them their, and we can all share a collective 'ahh, well done' and give them a patronising pat on the back, but I'd rather see the Euro's stay as a the premium International tournament.

You could argue 16 is too many.

Question to the Irish team.

Thought about Curling?

Really disappointing from Ireland, i expect Spain to dominate but i expected Ireland to show a bit of fight... there was none at all out there and it was quite frankly embarrassing watching them. They've let the country and the fans down.

Would be a similar principle to say that from next season the PL becomes 24 teams. Now there are an added 4 teams that are now regonized to have the quality to play in the top division, when previously they weren't deemed good enough - and that is without any further development in terms of quality for those 4 teams. Which to me smacks of Tokenism.

All day at work I was thinking Keane up front against spain can't see it

Caused problems in 2002, but 10 years on, his day is gone. Sad, but true.

Get Roy Keane in as manager.

Roy Keane is hammering into them

Roy Keane fuming.

I think I would be. Roy Keane was a winner as a player, and to see players so below the quality he was and played with, can't be nice. I think in 2002 he held the side in contempt, and the issues surrounding the training he was promised, was the straw that broke the camels back with him and McCarthey.

Roy Keane saying how it is, that was beyond shambolic.

Yes to old now same with duff.

Xavi and iniesta never break a sweat great to watch

Did he get sent home from a tournament ?

Was clear to see that it would take a performance beyond belief for Ireland to hold their own against a Spanish side in tournament football. Think Roy Keane was one of the few people in the ITV and even BBC footballing contingent to realise this, and not get too caught up in the 'Irish spirit' and exploits of 94 WC and years gone by that was getting crammed down out throats.

He sent himself home. As TR alluded to above.

Roy pitching for the job there? Slate the team, only so much a manager can do, but great fans...

From what I remember, (was 9/10 at the time) and what learned after, he was promised top quality training and camp facilities for the team from the Irish FA, and was let down. He was coming back from a big injury, and really didn't need such shoddy conditions.

I actually spoke to Niall Quinn about the facilities last year. He said of all the tournaments he went to, they were by far and away the best. I suspect Roy's departure was as much to do with the fact he hated Mick McCarthy.

That's what he says in his book. Training was shambolic and they were all on a jolly.

Only know his side, I'm sure there are other opinions.

Ok cheers thought he got sent home. I like his honest style need more like that on the tv.

Keane is one thing. A winner. And his attitude tonight shows that. Ireland have to stop thinking they are there for a jolly or they won't ever achieve anything. If anything, they're just proving that 24 teams is far too many at this tournament.

There you go, another opinion. As far as I remember, it wasn't denied that he layed into McCarthy and was ready to fight.

I can never see Roy Keane becoming a top manager, just doesn't seem to have the patience and decorum that would be needed.

Can imagine at his team at Ipswich him expecting things from the players that would be expected of him and his players when at Man U. With lose players not sharing that 'winning' attitude that led Keane to the top of his proffesion.

I think Keane's problem is he wouldn't be able to manage players who just aren't good enough. Keane has to manage at the top or not at all, in my opinion.

Am sure if you had an off game under him you would certainly know about it.

And for Keane's honest and forthright opinions, you get the patronising Chiles who just doesn't get it.

I agree. Doesn't seem to have the necessary personal skills you would need to win players onto your side, from which you can then implement winning attitude, idiolgies and training ect.

Just such a paradox between Chiles and Keane. You can tell that he holds Chiles in total contemp, must think he's such a child.

Massive respect for Keane, coming from a Newcastle fan. Top pro, a winner, and from what I've heard a nice guy.

Don't see many Keane's in the modern game do you

Honestly the worst presenter on tv only there so itv can recoup the millions they spent gettin him from bbc.

Viera and Keane didn't say much to each other ha.

I'm sure they share a mutual respect for each other though. May not like each other, but will respect each other.

Chiles, Colin Murray, both massive tits.

You watch sky champions league coverage and epl the studio boys all get into good debates type thing same with motd. They don't say a word on itv to each other

2012-06-14
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Back          2.08    10.00    Won         10.80
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Lay          3.65    35.00    Lost    (92.76)        
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20:59     Fixtures 14 June Spain v Rep of Ireland / Correct Score / Any Unquoted
Back          3.10    25.00    Won         52.50
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Back          3.00    12.00    Won         24.00   
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21:24    20451333388     2012-06-14
20:34     Fixtures 14 June Spain v Rep of Ireland / Correct Score / Any Unquoted
Lay          6.80    12.00    Lost    (69.60)        
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21:24    20451141994     2012-06-14
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Back          5.32    10.00    Won         43.23   
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19:13     Fixtures 14 June Spain v Rep of Ireland / Correct Score / Any Unquoted
Lay          4.80    50.00    Lost    (190.00)

Won £76 overall on Unquoted but you can see it would have been a lot more.  Poor game for me, laid it on the wrong side, the halftime lay hurt me.

Did 4-0 @ 16/1, Torres and 4-0 Scorecast @46/1 and 10-12 corners, all up but backed correct score 3-0 with £35
back in front on the first week now after a couple of shaky efforts

My bank just doubled, no idea why then I remembered I had a small flutter on a 19.5/1 horse Clon brûlée! Came in, in the 9:20.